Poultry-fountain.



A. A. WESTER. POULTRY FOUNTAIN. APPLICATION FILED APB..26,1912.

Patented Dec. 30; 1913.

UNITED S ATEs arENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. wnsrnn, or BOONE, IOWA.

POULTRY-FOUNTAIN.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. Nns'rnn,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry -Founta1ns, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in poultry fountains of the class wherein provision is made for supplying the water as fast as consumed, or in which the water is held back by atmospheric pressure and flows only so fast as required,and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the contruction and increase the eiiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device wherein provision is made for protecting the liquid and preventing it from being frozen in cold weather.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a device of this character l'iaving a sun gle relatively small orifice for the escape of the liquid coacting with a feeding trough or receptacle which is utilizedto assist in filling the reservoir.

lVith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the'drawings illustrative of. the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a perspective View ot'the improved device; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises an outer shell of casing 10 of any suitable materiahg and upwardly sloping upper side 15, and

with a relatively large opening 16 communieating with the trough through the adjacent wall of the casing. A relatively small open-- specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 26, 1912. Serial No. 693,371.

'turrd and oi any capa ity.

Patented Dec. 30,1913.

ingor orifice 17 is formed through the reser voir 11 and communicates with the trough ii, the upper line of the orifice being slightly below the rim 18 of the feed trough to prevent the overflow of the liquid, as will be obvious. Tlie tank 11 is completely closed except for the orifice 17, as shown.

At'its upper end the reservoir 11 is spaced below the upper line of the casing 10 and the latter is provided with a detachable closure 1%) having a depending lower part 20 engaging within the upper portion ofthe casing 1.0 and terminating close to the upper end of the reservoir. The space between the casing'li) and the reservoir 11 is filled with a ed at 2], while the space within the closure and between the members 19-20, is likewise filled with a suitable packing of non-conductive material and represented at 22. Bythis means the contents of the reservoir are'pro- "suitable non-co1ulncting material representtected from cold and will not freeze in cold .'\s soon as the tank is filled the device is returned to its u n-ight position when theatniospherie pressure upon the small quantity oi water remaining in the trough 14 will retain the mass of liquid within the reservoir so long as the liquid in the trough lit-is sufli ment to maintain the orifice 17 closed. \Vhen the fowl's drink a suilicient quantity of the liquid to expose the orifice 17,-the liquid will flow from the tank .into the trough until theorifice is again covered when the flow will cease. Thus the supplyof liquid is maintained uniformly in the trough-and supplies the i'owls with drinking water ]I1St so fastas it is used and thus effectually prevents waste.

The improved device is simple in construeiion. can he inex 'iensively manufacllaving thus described lhe'inventiou. what is claimed as new is:

poultry fountain including amusing closed at its lowereud and provided in its side with an opening, a reservoir closed at hotluends located within the casing and having an opening in its side, the upper edge of which is located below the-lower edge of the opening in the casing, a troug r located below the opening of the reservoir bottom and in the plane of one of the x valls, said brackets supporting the reservoir in spaced relation Within the cesing,-end a packing of non-heat conducting material 111 the space thus provided.

, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR A. WESTER. n. 8.]

' Witnesses:

JAMES WmsoN, G A. Nnnson. 

